It's Over! He's Yield the Floor: All Praise Sen. Chris Murphy!
FINAL UPDATE: The amazing Chris Murphy stood for change for 15 hours, but he has ended his effort after being assured that there will be votes on the "no-fly, no-buy" bill and some expanded background...
View ArticleKos, If you only knew what you were talking about....
In North Carolina political party affiliation is a matter of public record. A person in North Carolina concerned about possible effects of party affiliation on job status might be wise to register as...
View ArticleHealthcare company announces plans to leave Kansas, eviscerates Gov. Sam...
Jeff Blackwood, the CEO of Pathfinder Health innovations, released a public letter stating their intentions to move the company out of the state of Kansas. Mr. Blackwood pulled no punches in his...
View ArticleA veteran just went on unparalleled Twitter rant against Trump and it's going...
Corbin Reiff was 21 years old when he was deployed to Iraq in 2009. In his civilian life, Reiff is a writer. Predominantly a music writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone magazine and...
View Article13-year-old slams Trump and gets massive standing ovation on America's Got...
During season 11, NBC's America's Got Talent featured a young lady named Lori Mae Hernandez who decided she was going to do standup comedy, a rare thing for a teenage contestant to do. In front of a TV...
View ArticleUPDATED: Speechless. McCain directly blames Obama for Orlando massacre.
Consider this: John McCain has just said something just as, if not even more insane and offensive than Donald Trump: John McCain: Obama is ‘directly responsible’ for Orlando attack Sen. John McCain...
View ArticleFloridians: please don't vote for a reality-denier, even if his opponent is DWS.
I have two reasons, and only two reasons, for disliking Tim Canova, the man who is Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s primary challenger. But they are HUGE reasons.First, according to WaPo: Much of Canova’s...
View ArticleThank You, Bernie
I watched as much of Bernie’s speech as MSNBC decided to cover live this evening. I am so relieved. While some may disagree, I heard the call for common cause unity loud and clear. It might not have...
View ArticleHaving a bit of a sad
Late tomorrow afternoon our seniors will graduate. On Monday I will meet with my one remaining class — 30 juniors in AP Economics, if they show up, because all required work for me, except for two...
View Article40th Anniversary of Soweto Uprising and a Reason for Hope in Despair
I wasn’t ready to write this diary of thanks to an incredible community. I didn’t think I could write it ever until I awoke about 3 a.m. listening to a sorrowful BBC radio program on the June 16, 1976...
View ArticleCheeto Jesus... A New Meme is Created Republican Consultant Rick Wilson Lays...
This was too good to pass up. Rick Wilson, veteran Republican consultant, former water carrier for Dick Cheney, and general all around Republican A-Teamer just went nuclear on Donald and the RNC, and...
View ArticleDavid Cay Johnston: New Evidence Donald Trump Didn't Pay Taxes (With Update)
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston wrote a terrific piece in The Daily Beast yesterday, that there is New Evidence Donald Trump Didn’t Pay Taxes.As a tax accountant by trade, an...
View ArticleTranscript (as prepared) of Bernie Sanders' speech
Election days come and go. But political and social revolutions that attempt to transform our society never end. They continue every day, every week and every month in the fight to create a nation of...
View ArticleBernie Has Decided to be Irrelevant
So, Bernie will not concede.He won’t work against Trump until after the convention.It’s a dumb move since his leverage is now evaporating faster than liquid nitrogen in a blast furnace.Alrighty then,...
View ArticleThis. Just this.
xPretty powerful #WeAreOrlando memorial at the @HRC headquarters in DC: pic.twitter.com/zwzP7vReNj— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) June 17, 2016I’ll be joining friends to march in the Pride Portland...
View ArticleGarrison Keillor: The punk who would be president
is the title of a piece distributed several days ago by the Washington Post News Service. I have not found it at the Post website and do not remember encountering any references to it in the past few...
View ArticleA day of remembrance for the Charleston 9. The continuing fight against gun...
It is hard to believe that only a year has passed since the racist slaughter of Rev. Clementa Pinckney and members of his congregation at Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston South Carolina. The...
View ArticleBye Bye Bernie (For Now)
You might not believe this, but I very eagerly tuned in to last night's address by Bernie Sanders!Why? Because if he had something newsworthy to say, I wanted to be among the first to hear it. Also, I...
View ArticleThe gracious speech Bernie Sanders could have given last night, but didn't....
Imagine a graceful, glorious speech, endorsing the winner of the Democratic Party nomination and due to its graciousness and inclusiveness bringing us to instant unity with the two factions. It would...
View ArticleThe Press Consensus Is In: Bernie's Influence is Going Down the Toilet
SInce Bernie’s speech, or videoconference, or whatever that thing was last night was completed, several stories have come out explaining how Bernie’s continued refusal to articulate the basic reality...
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